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My demo for vector embeddings for the Earth's surface is a tool that creates vector embeddings—mathematical representations—of geographic locations on Earth's surface. It lets users experiment with how the planet can… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My demo for vector embeddings for the Earth's surface launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast - onthegomap/planetiler

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Virtual Feature Store. Turn your existing data infrastructure into a feature store. - featureform/featureform

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The open source backend for AI applications

    2023 · supabase.com · its alternatives →

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    Improved vector search with open-source AI embeddings editor

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Generate SVG code from images and text

    2025 · starvector.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A high-performance observability data pipeline. Contribute to vectordotdev/vector development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Heirarchical Navigable Small Worlds. Contribute to dicroce/hnsw development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for. I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4]. To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric. I would…

    2024 · papermatch.mitanshu.tech · its alternatives →

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    I made a web app to generate 3D models of real places on earth from land cover and elevation data. Click anywhere on the map to get a polygon, and then click "generate". It should work at most scales, but if your watershed or region selection is too large, the result can be less exciting because it's so flat. As a warning, the 3D models can sometimes be too much for my phone. It's nicer on desktop. I'm still working better on mobile support. The land cover data I'm using gives a cool effect, but at some point I'd like to add in global imagery and clouds. The backend is a Python thread…

    2025 · topography.jessekv.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I made a web game to practice country locations a while ago and HN liked it, so I thought I'd post my updated version as well. As for how the game works and feels, I'd really recommend you checking it out for yourself, it's free, no signup, no ads. The tech stack is Vue + ts + Tailwind/Daisy for the looks. The learning algorithm is a slight modification of the ts version of FSRS. If you have anything to add, it's open source as well (https://github.com/koljapluemer/learn-worldmap), although not well documented yet. In the end it's just a little sideproject,…

    2025 · map.koljapluemer.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're happy to release Mycelium, a JavaScript library for creating graph visualizations of machine learning models or any other directed acyclic graphs. Mycelium powers the graph viewer of the Talaria [0] a research model visualization and optimization system, which was used to optimize the efficiency of Apple Foundation Models [1]. Everything works entirely on the client-side in the browser — we provide a rudimentary ONNX loader out of the box, which you can try by dragging model files into our website. It is also simple to define loaders for your own model formats. The library was…

    2025 · apple.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A "virtual satellite" to map Earth in unprecedented detail

    2025 · deepmind.google · its alternatives →

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    Discover, evaluate, and access relevant embeddings in your go-to framework. Skip all the infra for scraping, cleaning, indexing, and updating high-quality embeddings.

    2023 · embedding.store · its alternatives →

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    An open-source database for machine learning

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built it as a way to practice programming. There are probably much better alternatives out there.

    2025 · earthguessr.com · its alternatives →

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    I was fascinated by this [0] and this video [1]. After many struggles, I finally built this app that traces images using circles similar to what these videos had shown. The most challenging part (to me) is to find a way to convert images to vector lines. I had tried Potrace, but its output is not suitable for my use case: too many small elements share the same border. Potrace's goal is to represent the original image faithfully using vector lines. But I want to trace the image edges. After searching and trying some Potrace alternatives in vain, I finally found my keyword. Surprisingly (to…

    2022 · phqb.github.io · its alternatives →

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    :earth_americas: Simple and ready-to-use deep learning examples for the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) - CNTK-World/README.rst at master · astorfi/CNTK-World

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Use Mask R-CNN/Keras/TensorFlow and OSM to find features in satellite images for fun. - jremillard/images-to-osm

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast and easy way to vectorize an image online

    2016 · vectorizer.io · its alternatives →

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    All commands have the format `output = \func inputs` or just `\function inputs`. Points and scalars are built on the fly. Eg `\line a b` to an empty canvas creates points `a` and `b`, and joins them with a line. One can use broadcasting semantics similar to NumPy and PyTorch in a visual setting (imagine creating a list of circles where one dim corresponds to radius and another to the center). One can also use backpropagation, run gradient descent or visualize vector fields. Almost everything is reactive so changing a variable updates all of the downstream geometry. It also allows anyone to…

    May 2026 · tinyvolt.com · its alternatives →

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